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The quote suggests that what makes people happy can seem strange to others. The speaker says that other people may enjoy choices that they themselves would find overwhelming or unbearable. It presents happiness as highly individual and hard to predict.
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Originally said in English.
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About Nick Harkaway
British novelist and commentator
Nick Harkaway, born Nicholas Cornwell, is a British novelist and commentator. He is known for writing under the name Nick Harkaway, and has 132 quotes on the site. Under that name, he wrote the novels The Gone-Away World, Angelmaker, Tigerman, Gnomon, Titanium Noir, and Karla's Choice, as well as the non-fiction study The Blind Giant: Being Human in a Digital World. He also wrote two novels under the pseudonym Aidan Truhen.
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